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Caroline Vu-Nguyen

    Growing up in Saigon during the Vietnam War profoundly shaped this author's literary perspective, leading her to explore the psychological effects of conflict and displacement in her novels. Her work delves into fractured family dynamics and the ways individuals and communities cope with trauma. She masterfully crafts characters navigating the search for belonging, whether in their homeland or in exile. Her prose is marked by deep empathy and a penetrating insight into the human psyche.

    That Summer in Provincetown
    • 2015

      That Summer in Provincetown

      • 133 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family for contracting AIDS in Provincetown, Daniel spends his last months in despair. Only his cousin Mai stays by his side to record the darkest of family secrets. From French Indochina to present day North America, this novel follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they endure their own folly and the whims of history.

      That Summer in Provincetown